Dalmeny / Doumani / Dunmani

CC-BY-SA-2.0

Results: 7 records

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2012 by kim traynor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2946823] [accessed 9 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south portal - archivolt

Source caption: "Carved Arch in Dalmeny Kirk. The carvings in the archway are in two parts, outer and inner, and represent a number of distinctly non-Christian subjects. On the outer arch a series of carvings alternate with grotesque protruding masks. From left to right, the carvings are:
1. A king and kneeling knight facing him, perhaps during the knight's investiture
2. A centaur shooting at a griffin
3. Not a quiver of arrows, but Perixidion, the Tree of Life
4. A naked savage fighting a lion to gain its skin
5. A whale mistaken for an island by sailors, who have fallen into the sea when it dived
6. A king enthroned
7. A manticore - a mythical beast with the head of a man, the body of an ox and the tail of a serpent
8. A mounted knight with sword and shield
9. A serpent without a head

The inner arch contains:
10. The phoenix - there was only ever a single phoenix, which in due course immolated itself, and from whose ashes the new phoenix was born
11. Terrebolen - also called 'igniferi lapides' these were stones which were either male or female. When brought together they would ignite
12. A basilisk - a creature hatched by a toad or serpent from a cockerel's egg, its glance was deadly
13. A four-footed dragon
14. A serra - a sea dragon with the feet of a swan, it pursued ships and wrecked them
15. An eagle, which flew close to the sun and was scorched, but which could revive itself in a fountain
16. A hart, which drank till its body was full, and then used the water to quench its foe, the dragon
17. A pelican, reviving its young with blood from its own breast
18. Two dragons fighting
19. A lion, on guard and sleeping with its eyes open
20. A griffin - half eagle and half lion, it guards treasure
21. A serpent
22. The Agnus Dei - the Lamb of God

Scene Description: Source caption: "Carved Arch in Dalmeny Kirk. The carvings in the archway are in two parts, outer and inner, and represent a number of distinctly non-Christian subjects. On the outer arch a series of carvings alternate with grotesque protruding masks. From left to right, the carvings are: 1. A king and kneeling knight facing him, perhaps during the knight's investiture 2. A centaur shooting at a griffin 3. Not a quiver of arrows, but Perixidion, the Tree of Life 4. A naked savage fighting a lion to gain its skin 5. A whale mistaken for an island by sailors, who have fallen into the sea when it dived 6. A king enthroned 7. A manticore - a mythical beast with the head of a man, the body of an ox and the tail of a serpent 8. A mounted knight with sword and shield 9. A serpent without a head The inner arch contains: 10. The phoenix - there was only ever a single phoenix, which in due course immolated itself, and from whose ashes the new phoenix was born 11. Terrebolen - also called 'igniferi lapides' these were stones which were either male or female. When brought together they would ignite 12. A basilisk - a creature hatched by a toad or serpent from a cockerel's egg, its glance was deadly 13. A four-footed dragon 14. A serra - a sea dragon with the feet of a swan, it pursued ships and wrecked them 15. An eagle, which flew close to the sun and was scorched, but which could revive itself in a fountain 16. A hart, which drank till its body was full, and then used the water to quench its foe, the dragon 17. A pelican, reviving its young with blood from its own breast 18. Two dragons fighting 19. A lion, on guard and sleeping with its eyes open 20. A griffin - half eagle and half lion, it guards treasure 21. A serpent 22. The Agnus Dei - the Lamb of God

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2012 by Anne Burgess [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2760841] [accessed 9 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south portal in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2012 by kim traynor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2946816] [accessed 9 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - south view - detail

Source caption: "Blind arcades at Dalmeny Kirk. These are above the doorway on the south wall of the Norman nave. Note the carved heads above them which are very similar to those at Leuchars in Fife. They represent animals of some sort, though it isn't clear which."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Blind arcades at Dalmeny Kirk. These are above the doorway on the south wall of the Norman nave. Note the carved heads above them which are very similar to those at Leuchars in Fife. They represent animals of some sort, though it isn't clear which."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2012 by kim traynor [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2946833] [accessed 9 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Source caption: "Lothian Architecture : Dalmeny Kirk. Category A listed church. Early 12th century, with 17th century additions and alterations; tower (incorporating earlier work) by Alfred Greig, 1937."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Lothian Architecture : Dalmeny Kirk. Category A listed church. Early 12th century, with 17th century additions and alterations; tower (incorporating earlier work) by Alfred Greig, 1937."

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 12 July 2015 by Richard West [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4570273] [accessed 9 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking east

Source caption: "Interior of Dalmeny Kirk. Looking from the nave into the chancel, and into the apse beyond. The arches separating the different parts of the building are decorated with chevrons, and the chancel has ribbed vaulting."

Scene Description: Source caption: "Interior of Dalmeny Kirk. Looking from the nave into the chancel, and into the apse beyond. The arches separating the different parts of the building are decorated with chevrons, and the chancel has ribbed vaulting."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 January 2012 by Anne Burgess [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2760841] [accessed 9 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church interior - looking west

Scene Description: Notice the modern baptiismal font located in the foreground, left [south] side, at the foot of the pulpit

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2014 by Stephencdickson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dalmeny_Kirk_interior.JPG] [accessed 9 October 2019]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 22396DAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1?

Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Cuthbert

Church Patron Saints: St. Cuthbert [aka Cubertus]

Church Location: Main St, Dalmeny, Midlothian, EH30 9TT, UK

Country Name: Scotland

Location: Edinburgh

Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A90, 2 km SSE of Queensferry, 13-14 km WNW of Endinburgh city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of St. Andrews

Historical Region: West Lothian

Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque

Church Notes: a 7thC chapel dedicated to Adamnan of Coldingham may have existed on this site before the ca. 1160 church was built

Font Notes: Click to view

The entry for this church in the CRSBI (2019) notes: "Few churches in Scotland have retained so much of their original decoration. Dalmeny is now often referred to, not without grounds, as the best preserved romanesque church in Scotland. Its decoration places Dalmeny in a group of related churches, the main ones being the abbey church at Dunfermline (Fife), the ruins of the parish church of Tynninghame (East Lothian), the parish church of Leuchars (Fife), and St Giles church in Edinburgh (the doorway of which is known from an early drawing before it was destroyed). Scholars in the past have noted the close affinities with all of these and with the carved work at Durham Cathedral. [...] A date in the 1140s, 1150s or early 1160s is the most likely period for the construction of the church at Dalmeny"; no font noted. The entry for this church in Historic Scotland's Statutory List [http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB5570] [accessed 9 October 2019] notes: "Early 12th century, with 17th century additions and alterations; tower (incorporating earlier work) by Alfred Greig, 1937. Romanesque church [...] Stone font by Ian G Lindsay, 1950." A 2015 article by Carole Cusack, in the Sydney Society for Scottish History Journal, Vol. 15, 2015, pp. 97-122, mentions no font in this church.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 55.9819, -3.3734

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 55° 58′ 54.84″ N, 3° 22′ 24.24″ W

UTM: 30U 476701 6204128

REFERENCES

Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland. Accessed: 2019-10-09 00:00:00. URL: http://www.crsbi.ac.uk.

Cusack, Carole, "Two Scottish Romanesque Parish Churches: St Athernase, Leuchars and St Cuthbert, Dalmeny", 15 (2015), Sydney Society for Scottish History Journal, 2015, pp. 97-122; [on the church itself]